The process of decision making about geopolitical interactions either has a public source and receives its legitimacy and legality from people and public arena or decisions are made and strategies are chosen by official institutions and political elites beyond the volition of public arena. Based on this fact, the current article tries to answer this question that what is the source of legitimacy of Iran's geopolitical interactions while it explains legal aspects of these interactions. Findings of this article indicate that geopolitical strategies of Islamic republic of Iran are based on laws ratified by parliament members of Iran's parliament and other lawmaking institutions. Therefore, these laws have public legitimacy. Thus Iran's geopolitical interactions have public legitimacy.

From the beginning of twentieth century Islamic intellectual movements called Islamic Awakening Movement were formed in the world of Islam. They were aimed at fighting colonization of Islamic countries by west and help Muslims return to forgotten Islamic laws and regulations. Their primary objective was to regenerate and revive political Islam in twentieth century. Islamic awakening process and Islamism has led to formation of different patterns of Islamism in different parts of the world of Islam. This article tries to geopolitically explain these patterns according to constructivism. It tries to answer this primary question which pattern has geopolitical principles and framework more compatible with standard Islam to recreate the identity of the world of Islam and preserve its interests. The method applied here is descriptive analysis.

The main objective of this article is to study and analyze the process of revolution in Bahrain. With an overview, condition inside Bahrain following the revolution on Feb 14th 2011 and evidence of reasons for its failure have been studied. This question is raised that why the revolution in Bahrain has not toppled the ruling system yet. In response, studying different aspects of Islamic awakening and a comparative study of recent developments, this point is emphasized that Bahrainis' revolution has been depicted as unimportant and oppressed due to regional measures supporting Al Khalifa by Saudi Arabia on one hand and geopolitical importance of Bahrain for the United States. Therefore it seems that the importance of a small country such as Bahrain due to its strategic position neighboring oil-rich parts of eastern Saudi Arabia and being located in oil route of Persian Gulf have added to the scope of failure of the revolution in this country. Bahraini revolution is in a transition period which is comprehensible through defining an instability period and a limited predictability; since the orientation and the path of this deep social revolution is still unclear.

The study of the components affecting the power of a country shows the effect of geopolitical factors on the position of that country in the regional power system. Accordingly, the Islamic Republic of Iran has an important place in the power system of West Asia. In addition to the need to pay attention to geopolitical advantages, the promotion of Iran's position in the regional power system requires the identification of the geopolitical risks that it will face. The purpose of this study is to research the geopolitical risks of the Islamic Republic of Iran in West Asia on the horizon of 1404 with a futuristic approach and using the trend analysis method. According to the research findings, increasing tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia, increasing US-Iranian confrontation, intensifying religious and ethnic rivalries, Zionist expansionist state, reducing convergence in the region, promoting Iranophobia and Shiismophoia, increasing the power of Salafi fundamentalists, increasing arms race, crisis spread in the sources, the rise of failed governments and the interventionism of supra-regional powers are among the most important geopolitical risks affecting the future of Iran's position in West Asia on the horizon of 1404.